Just for comparison my home Core is a Asus Atom 330 Dual 1.6Ghz with an intel 945 chipset (I dont have a physical screen attached as its at the end of the garden in a shed...I vnc into it for maintenance/setup). I run a MythTV backend with an HDHomerun and have an DLink 2Tb NAS. I have 2x Acer Revo's and a WD Live all being driven using UPnP.

My point is that a wide range of hardware specs are possible with LinuxMCE (My system is currently running Dianemo 10.10 of course...but the lineage is the same of course) and have differing advantages/disadvantages. There is no right or wrong in absolute terms(unless your hardware is incompatible in some way ;-) )...just whats right for your needs.

I´m thinking of installing the core onto a SSD to increase performance and lifetime. Wich component does impact orbiter regen most; RAM, CPU or storage?! Any rule of thumb in this issue?!

All media storage is on a NAS so a 60-80GB SSD wold be ok, right?!

Well the concensus here is that more CPU Cores and some re factoring of OrbiterGen to use them would be the best way forwards...without that we'd go with a faster processor as being the best way to improve Regen performance.

I have used an ssd with an atom 330 as a core. Even with the ssd regens are very painful taking around 15 minutes per MD.

HTH

Tim

Well obviously your Orbiters will take longer the higher the resolution you choose...but on our Atom 330 based systems we experience about 7-8 mins per Orbiter at 720p. Its certainly good practice to minimise the number of regens on lower powered systems until OrbiterGen can be replaced...;-)

Well obviously your Orbiters will take longer the higher the resolution you choose...but on our Atom 330 based systems we experience about 7-8 mins per Orbiter at 720p. Its certainly good practice to minimise the number of regens on lower powered systems until OrbiterGen can be replaced...;-)

I've had a core running on a P4 1.8 with 1GB Ram. Video card I used on it was a Geforce 6200 128 MB. It worked okay, but it is better as a MS. I am now running a P4 2.8 with 2GB RAM as my core and it is performing great. There is no need to go out and buy the latest and greatest if you have something around that will do the job.

I finally found a mobo off ebay for my p4 3.0ghz ht chip for about 30bucks. BUT, after buying a dual Gb-NIC for about 100 bucks and some more RAM (unless I can find some laying around) and a case, im looking at close to 300 bucks.